Crystal’s Recommended Reading
I have read all of the titles on these pages and would highly reccommend them for anyone looking for a tale that will take you
on a journey.
Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
The House of Spirits
Paula

Paula Gunn Allen
Voice of Turtle: American Indian
Literature 1900 - 1970
Spider Woman’s Granddaughters:
Traditional Tales of Contempoary
Writing by Native American Women.

Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina

Maya Angelou  
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
I Shall Not Be Moved
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting’
Merry Like Christmas
Gather Together in My Name
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Fictions

Ray Bradbury  
Fahrenheit 451

Rita Mae Brown
Southern Discomforts
Rubyfruit Jungle

Ana Castillo
So Far From God

Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street
Woman Hollering Creek
Loose Woman: Poems
My Wicked Wicked Ways

Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Arranged Marriage
The Mistress of Spices
The Vine of Desire
Sister of My Heart

Alexandre Dumas  
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask

Fannie Flagg  
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

John Gardner
Grendel

David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars

Joy Harjo  
She Had Some Horses
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (Poems)

Joanne Harris
Chocolat

Frank Herbert
Dune

Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms

Langston Hughes
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserable

Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Henrik Ibsen  
A Doll’s House

Dean Koontz
Frankenstein (Incomplete Series)

Witi Ihimaera   
The Whale Rider

Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hallow
Rip Van Winkle

Kazuo Isniguro
The Remains of the Day
When We Were Orphans

John Knowles  
A Separate Peace

Ruth  Prawer Jhbvala
Shards of Memory
Out of India : Selected Stories

Maxine Hong Kingston
Woman Warrior

D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow

Harper Lee  
To Kill a Mockingbird

C. S. Lewis  
The Dark Tower and Other Stories
Till We Have Faces <-- Highly recommend

Mario Vargas Llosa
The Storyteller

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Armistead Maupin
28 Barbary Lane
Tales of the City
More Tales of the City
Further Tales of the City
Babycakes
Back to Barbary Lane : The Final Tales of the City Omnibus

Isabel Miller
The Love of Good Women

Yukio Mishima
Forbidden Colors

N. Scott Momaday
House Made Of Dawn
The Man Made of Words

Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Beloved

Anne Rice
Interview With The Vampire
The Vampire Lestat

Mary Shelly   
Frankenstein

John Steinbeck
East of Eden

Bram Stoker  
Dracula

Amy Tan  
The Joy Luck Club
The Bonesetter’s Daughter

Jervey Tervalon
Understand This

Carla Trujillo
**Added 10/20/05 ***
What Night Brings (A lesbian novel)

Alice Walker  
The Color Purple
The Temple of My Familiar
Possessing The Secret of Joy

Evelyn Waugh  
Brideshead Revisited

Al Young  
Who is Angelina?